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May 17, 2019
Laurie Penny
The Criminalization of Women’s Bodies Is All About Conservative Male Power
The goal of the wave of anti-abortion laws in America is to put female sexuality under strict and brutal state control.
May 16, 2019
Emily Atkin
Arrest Me, You Alabama Cowards
The state's abortion ban treats women as victims of evil doctors rather than informed, willing participants.
April 5, 2019
Matt Ford
The Everyday Brutality of America’s Prisons
It's not just Alabama. Inmates across the country are living—and dying—in horrific conditions.
June 5, 2018
Magazine
Mychal Denzel Smith
Rough Justice
How America became over-policed
May 9, 2018
Magazine
Vauhini Vara
California Dreaming
Opposition to the president in Orange County has boosted hopes of a wave election this fall. But Democrats need more than anti-Trump anger to win.
April 23, 2018
Caleb Gayle
No Reconciliation Without Truth
A new museum and lynching memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, constitute a watershed moment in the way America remembers its racist past.
February 27, 2018
Matt Ford
The Cruelty of Executing the Sick and Elderly
Two controversial cases in Alabama reveal a disturbing trend in the death penalty in America.
December 28, 2017
Emily Atkin
Roy Moore’s election lawsuit is straight from Donald Trump’s playbook.
December 20, 2017
Graham Vyse
Democrats: We Can Win Suburban Republicans With a Progressive Platform
What the party has learned from its two biggest wins of 2017.
December 15, 2017
Elizabeth Drew
The Danger of Reading Too Much Into Alabama’s Special Election
Whether Democrats will be able to replicate their upset victory in the 2018 midterms is far from certain.
December 13, 2017
Carson Leigh Brown
Beware the “black voters are superheroes” narrative from Alabama’s election.
December 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Steve Bannon’s war against the Republican Party is only going to get uglier.
December 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Donald Trump Is Losing His Only Superpower
Roy Moore's loss in the Alabama election reveals the president's limits in motivating his voters.
December 13, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Cost of Supporting Roy Moore and Donald Trump
Doug Jones's upset victory in Alabama's special Senate election is the latest evidence that Republicans are facing a historic backlash.
December 12, 2017
Alex Shephard
Roy Moore Will Haunt Republicans for Years
Whether he wins or loses his race for the Senate, the GOP will rue the day it embraced the accused child molester.
December 11, 2017
Rachelle Hampton
Alabama’s Senate race is also about voter suppression.
December 11, 2017
Graham Vyse
The stakes of the Roy Moore campaign are about so much more than sexual misconduct.
December 5, 2017
Alex Shephard
Republicans are changing their tune now that they think Roy Moore will win.
December 4, 2017
Sarah Jones
Donald Trump and Roy Moore, together at last.
November 16, 2017
Jeet Heer
The Republicans Already Are the Party of Roy Moore—With or Without Him
There's little the GOP can do to reverse course under Trump.
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